organ trading

In singapore, there is an increasing number of people dying of organ failures. Not only that, there are very little people willing and kind enough to donate their organs to these victims. Therefore, there are many people resorting to illegal organ trading.

Some people feel that it will be very unfair to the poorer people who have organ failures as they would not have money to buy an organ if organ trading is legalised. however, if this is legalised, many lives would be saved.

Personally, i feel that organ trading should be legalised. There are people out there and thus, should not we do something to help them? in this way, we will be able to save many lives. Some people may think that poorer people cannot afford it, but the government can always regulate the price. Therefore, if the donors know what they are doing, it is perfactly save to legalise organ trading.

character analysis of Hari

Hari:
Hari is a responsible person as he takes up the role of his drunkard father who has no ability to take care of the family. he worries for his sisters as well as the financial difficulties the family is facing. This is evident from this phrase. 'He must have a job if he was to find his sisters a way out of this dark, gloomy house and the illness and drunkenness and hopelessness' (pg 67).

Hari also cares for his family. For his family, he labours hard everyday to earn some money for his family and his sickly mother. For example, he works in the fields everyday, plucks coconut for some money, and even fish by the shores of the sea even though he knew he could not find any fish there. He is also willing to go to bombay, a strange place to him to hopefully find a job there and send money back to his family.

Hari is also a far-sighted boy. He knows that his two younger sisters would have to be married off one day and also knows that his father would not see to it. Therefore, he decides that he would have to earn more money as the grooms would demand all kinds of expensive gifts.

All the examples given above shows that Hari is a boy that cares very much for his family and is very responsible.

Book review on VBTS

Village by the sea is a book which mainly talks about the life of Hari as well as his family. Hari is a boy who comes from a very poor family. He later goes with the villagers of Thul to Bombay to protest about the new factory that was going to be built in Thul. However, later, he was left alone in Bombay and started to earn money there. Later, he goes back to Thul with his earned money and discovers that his sickly mother has been cured and his father had turned over a new leaf.

This novel is like a fairytale where the protagonists 'live happily ever after'. 5 themes can be found from this book mainly benefactors, poverty and wealth, urban and rural India, family and change and adaptation. Therefore, I found this novel very entertaining as I read on about Hari's adventure.